Friction by Design: A Framework for Centering Learning in the Age of AI
This framework presents a model for using AI in education intentionally, preserving the mental, social, and emotional effort essential to learning while reducing barriers that obstruct it. It introduces five design lenses—Productive Struggle, Access Barriers, Activation Energy, Social Sense-Making, and Cognitive Ownership—to guide educators in leveraging AI without diminishing students’ learning experiences.
Leading With AI in K–12 Education: Quick Start Guide
This quick start guide offers practical strategies for educational leaders to integrate AI effectively and responsibly into their daily work. It emphasizes clear communication, ethical use, and intentional design, highlighting ten high-leverage ways AI can support tasks like family communication, professional development, and data analysis.
Friction by Design: Writing in a Community of Writers With AIriting with AI
This document explores how writing instruction can integrate artificial intelligence in ways that support—rather than replace—collaborative, student-centered learning. It emphasizes designing classroom experiences that maintain students’ cognitive ownership, foster productive struggle, support social sense-making, lower activation energy for writing, and remove access barriers, all while using AI as a tool to amplify learning within a thriving community of writers.